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Neri's Reading List Here's my ever-growing list of favorite young adult and middle grade books for boys plus my list of graphic novels for all ages. If you have a favorite that you think belongs here, let me know. * Young Adult * Middle Grade * Graphic Novels Books for Young Adult Boys *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie *An Abundance of Katherines by John Green *Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon *Ashfall by Mike Mullin *The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson *Au Revoir,Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber *Ball Don't Lie by Matt de La Pena *Bang! by Sharon G. Flake *Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini *Big Slick by Eric Luper *Black and White by Paul Volponi *Blank Confession by Pete Hautman *Blankets by Craig Thompson *Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin *Boy21 by Matthew Quick *Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge *Boy Kills Man by Matt Whyman *Boy Toy by Barry Lyga *Broken Moon by Kim Antieau *Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes *Bug Boy by Eric Luper *The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon *Busted by Antony John *Catch by Will Leitch *The Call of the Wild by Jack London *Candy by Kevin Brooks *Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford *Chameleon by Charles R Smith, Jr. *Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier *Compound by S. A. Bodeen *The Contender by Robert Lipsyte *Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon *Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos *Doing It by Melvin Burgess *Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving *Dunk by David Lubar *Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King *Fakie by Tony Varrato *Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going *Feed by M. T. Anderon *Fighting Rueben Wolfe by Markus Zusak *First Light by Rebecca Stead *The First Part Last by Angela Johnson *47 by Walter Mosely *Fighter by Jean Jacques Greif *Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson *Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger *Funny Little Monkey by Andrew Auseon *Girls for Breakfast by David Yoo *The Goats by Brock Cole *Good Enough by Paula Yoo *Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin *Godless by Pete Hautman *Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith *The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman *The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong *Hachet by Gary Paulsen *Head Case by Sarah Aronson *Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos *Homeboyz by Alan Lawrence Sitomer *House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain *Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi *I am the Messanger by Markus Zusak *Inexcusable by Chris Lynch *In the Break by Jack Lopez *In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith *Johnny Hazzard by Eddie de Oliveira *The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman *Kill All Enemies by Melvin Burgess *King Dork by Frank Portman *King of the Screw-ups by K.L. Going *The Kings of New York by Michael Weinreb *The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe *A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah *Looking for Alaska by John Green *The Long Night of Leo and Bree by Ellen Wittlinger *Lord of the Flies by William Golding *The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien *Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli *Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith *Maybe by Brent Runyon *Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli *Monster By Walter Dean Myers *Native Son by Richard Wright *New Boy by Julian Houston *Open by Andre Agassi *The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton *Paper Towns by John Green *Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson *Peace Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson *Peak by Roland Smith *Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd Winick *Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky *Personal Effects by E.M. Kokie *Pick Up Game (anthology) *The Pigman by Paul Zindel *Playground by 50 Cent *Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos *Punkzilla by Adam Rapp *Response by Paul Volponi *Rock Star Superstar by Blake Nelson *Rooftop by Paul Volponi *Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin *Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton *Runner by Carl Deuker *Saint Iggy by K.L. Going *Secret Saturdays by Torrey Maldonado *Shift by Jennifer Bradbury *Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi *Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman *Slam by Nick Hornby *Smack by Melvin Burgess *Storky by D.L Garfinkle *Street Love by Walter Dean Myers *Stick by Andrew Smith *Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman *Sucker Punch by David Hernandez *Surface Tension byBrent Runyon *Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle *Ten Mile River by Paul Griffin *Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher *This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis *Thou Shall Not Road Trip by Antony John *Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen *Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson *Tyrell by Coe Booth *We Were Here by Matt de la Pena *Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher *When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt *You Don't Even Know Me by Sharon G. Flake *You Don’t Know Me by David Klass Books for Middle Grade Boys *A Monster Calls by Patric Ness *Airborn by Kenneth Oppel *Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko *Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess *The Birthday Room by Kevin Henkes *Blackwater by Eve Bunting *Blindsighted by Peter Moore *Blindspot by Kevin C. Pyle *Brendan Buckley's Universe by Sundee Frazier *Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis *Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis *Chuck Dugan is AWOL by Eric Chase Anderson *Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer *The Extraordinary Adventures Of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey *Firegirl by Tony Abbott *Flush by Carl Hiassen *Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick *The Giver by Lois Lowry *The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien *Harry Potter series by JK Rowlings *Holes by Louis Sachar *Hoot by Carl Hiaasen *How Angel Peterson Got his Name by Gary Paulsen *Island Boyz by Graham Salisbury *Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass *Jimi & Me by Jaime Adoff *Joseph by Shelia P. Moses *Junebug by Alice Mead *Kimchi and Calamari by Rose Kent *King Matt the First by Janusz Korczak *Kit's Wilderness by David Almond *La Linea by Ann Jaramillo *Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt *Loser by Jerry Spinelli *The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer *Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli *Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson *No Castles Here by A.C.E. Bauer *Notes from a Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick *On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer *Out Standing in my Field by Patrick Jennings *Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas *Reality Leak by Joni Sensel *Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman *Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee *Summerland by Michael Chabon *The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick *The Phantom Toll Booth by Norton Juster *There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar *The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm *Tangerine by Edward Bloor *Toby Wheeler: Eighth Grade Benchwarmer by Thatcher Heldring *To Catch a Mermaid by Suzanne Selfors *Tommysaurus Rex by Doug TenNapel *Voices in the First Person by Lori Carlson *We Could Be Brothers by Derrick Barnes *The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman *The Wild Things by Dave Eggers Graphic Novels and comic stories: YA=teen MG=middle grade E=Elementary *21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago MG-YA *The Adventures of Polo by Regis Faller (surreal adventure) E *The Adventures of Sparrow Boy by Brian Pinkney (adventure) E – MG *American Born Chinese by Gene Yang (racism) MG *Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi (being Arab after 2001) YA *The Arrival by Shaun Tan (immigration, fish out of water) MG-A *Blankets by Craig Thompson (first love) YA *Blindspot by Kevin C. Pyle (coming of age) MG-YA *The Bear by Raymond Briggs (imagination) E *The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard by Gregory Rogers (Shakespeare) E *Bumperboy & the Loud Loud Mountain by Debbie Huey E-MG *Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (life under dictator) YA *Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson (European travelogue) YA *The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song by Frank Young MG-YA *Castro by Rheinhard Kleist (history) YA *Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi (Life in Iran) YA *Chiggers by Hope Larson (life at camp, summer love) MG-YA *The Contract with God Trilogy by Will Eisner (God, life) YA *Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (diaries) MG-YA *Epileptic by David B. (epilepsy) YA *Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (teenage slice of life) YA *Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada (teen violence) YA *Footnotes from Gaza by Joe Sacco (war) YA *The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm (racism, baseball, period piece) YA *Houdini: the Handcuff King by Jason Lutes (biography) E-A *Incognegro by Mat Johnson (racism, lynchings) YA *In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Speigelman (WTC attack) YA *Jellaby by Kean Soo (love) MG *Kampung Boy by Lat (growing up Muslum in Southeast Asia) E-MG *KatMan by Kevin C. Pyle (alienation) YA *Kings in Disguise by James Vance/Dan Burr (hobos in Depression era) YA *Klezmer by Joann Sfar (Jewish folk music adventure) YA *Laika by Nick Abadsiz (Soviet Space Program) YA *Latino USA: a cartoon History by Ilan Stavans (Hispanic hostory) YA *The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea by Anne Sibley O'Brien (Korean folklore) E *Level Up by Gene Yang (gaming vs studying) MG-YA *Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Warren Pleece (Teen vampires at mini mart) YA *Little Lit by Art Speigelman (fairy tales) E-MG *Little Vampire series by Joann Sfar (lonliness, outsider) E-MG *Malcolm X by Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke (biography) YA *Mangaman by Barry Lyga YA *Maus 1 and 2 by Art Speigelman (Holocaust, racism) YA *Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer (adventure) E, MG *Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies (disease) YA *My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (High school bullying) YA *Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush by Luis Urrea (magic realism) YA *Night Fisher by R. Kikuo Johnson (drugs, Hawaii) YA *Notes for a War Story by Gipi (war, survival) YA *The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson (terrorism) YA *Palestine by Joe Sacco (war journalism) YA *People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn (War, US policy) YA *Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd Winick (AIDS) YA *Persepolis 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi (growing up in Iran) YA *Pinocchio Vampire Slayer by Van Jensen MG-YA *Punk Rock and Trailer Parks by Derf Backderf YA *Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle YA *Refresh Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff (war, fighting) YA *Road to Perdition by Max Allen Collins (revenge, period piece) YA *Safe Area: Gorazde by Joe Sacco (war journalism) YA *Shenzhen by Guy Delisle (Foreigner in Modern China) YA *Siberia by Nikoli Mazlov (Life in Russia) YA *Sleepwalk, Summer Blond by Adrien Tomine (loneliness, relationships) YA *The Sons of Liberty by Alexander Lagos MG-YA *Strum and Drang: Great Moments in Rock n’ Roll by Joel Orff (teenage slice of life, music) YA *Satchel Page: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Strum and Rich Tommaso (racism, baseball) MG-YA *The Savage by David Almond (death, bully) YA *The Sea View Hotel by James Stevenson (lonliness) E *Shake, Rattle and Turn that Noise Down! by Mark Alan Stamaty (birth of rock n roll) E *The Silence of our Friends by Mark Long and Nate Powell (race) YA *The Six Shots of Philadelphia by Ulrich Scheel (gun violence) YA *Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki (suicide) YA *Stitches by David Small (cancer, family secrets) YA *Take What You Can Carry by Kevin Pyle (discrimination) YA *The Summer of Love by Debbie Drechsler (first love) YA *The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot (incest, homelessness) YA *There's a Wolf at the Door by Zoe and R.W. Alley (fairy tales) E *Tintin by Herge (world adventures) MG *Tommysaurus Rex by Doug TenNapel (Death, bullys) MG *Too Many Time Machines by Mark Stamaty (history, baseball) E *Town Boy by LAT (growing up in Malaysia) E - MG *Tuesday by David Wiesner (Alternate reality) E- MG *Unstable Molecules by James Sturm (real life bios of Fantastic 4) YA *Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar (loneliness) YA *The Wall by Peter Sis (Communism) E-YA *War’s End by Joe Sacco (War and Peace) YA *When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs (nuclear holocaust) YA *We Are on our Own by Miriam Katin (Hungarian girl escapes Nazis) YA |
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